Mackenzie noble community collaborative stop act project to reduce underage drinking among youth 12-20 years old - the mackenzie noble community collaborative (MNCC) proposes a stop act project to…

Mackenzie noble community collaborative stop act project to reduce underage drinking among youth 12-20 years old - the mackenzie noble community collaborative (MNCC) proposes a stop act project to target youth underage drinking prevention through the development of the task force to reduce underage drinking (MNCC / TF2RUD). This project will build on the coalition's drug free communities project, which also targets the high-need, high poverty 48204 and 48227 ZIP codes of detroit, michigan. The target area's public middle and high school students (50,875) are 95% african american with 100% meeting the district criteria as "economically disadvantaged." youth substance use is widespread at the ZIP codes only high school, to the point of being the norm: in the past 30 days 23.9% used alcohol. There is a lack of peer disapproval: only 57% report that peers disapprove of alcohol. Twenty percent of students reported attending school under the influence of alcohol or other illegal drugs in the past 12 months. While 11% of middle school-age students in the detroit public school district as a whole report having alcohol in the past 30 days, this rate rises to 17% for students in the public middle school in the 48204 and 48227 ZIP codes. The stop act project will progress in a way that is aligned with the DFC project and the strategic prevention framework, implementing environmental strategies influenced by the seven strategies for community change. The goal of the project is to prevent and reduce alcohol use among youth and young adults ages 12-20. The project will measure progress toward the following four objectives: objective 1: to lower past-30-day underage alcohol use by 2 percent per year; objective 2: to increase the perception of risk or harm of underage alcohol use by 2 percent per year; objective 3: to increase the perception of parental disapproval of underage alcohol use by 2 percent per year; objective 4: to increase perception of peer disapproval of underage alcohol use by 2 percent per year. Project activities include targeted training and outreach, compliance checks, a parent-directed communications campaign, and a peer-to-peer intervention. The stop act project will leverage extensive prevention-related experience and organizational capacity to greatly increase the MNCC DFC's ability to impact youth in the geographic catchment area.